Dartmouth College has implemented a new policy aimed at reducing hazing incidents and increasing student safety.

As of this weekend, dormitories, fraternities and sororities are subject to random inspections by Dartmouth Safety and Security officers. The inspections are part of what Dartmouth calls its "harm reduction rules" focusing on student safety.

The Valley News reported that the policy targets hazing and other high-risk student behavior, especially drinking.

Dartmouth was thrust into the national spotlight this year when a college fraternity accused of hazing was put on probation for three terms, and a former frat member wrote a column describing how the fraternity pressured pledges to swim in a kiddie pool fool of rotten food, vomit and other bodily fluids and eat omelets made out of vomit.

Twenty-seven members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity face charges in the campus judicial system after Dartmouth College officials say disturbing details of hazing incidents surfaced last January.